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is true of other Hebrew words with which the author ornaments the pages of his book; e.g., on p, 297 we find a word which the author believes to represent the Hebrew for "ark" or "coffer." As little knowledge of Hebrew is displayed on pp. 364 et seq. To judge by the way in which Baali (p. 365) is used, the author seems to have no idea that it is Baal plus the pronominal suffix of the first person singular; and what does "Baalam" (p. 365) mean ? Whence that form ? The plural is Baalim.

HiSTOIRE DE L'iMAGERIE POPULAIRE FlAMANDE ET DE SES RAPPORTS AVEC LES IMAGERIES ETRANGERES. Par E. H.

VAN Heurck et G. J. Boekenoogen. Bruxelles : G. van Oest & Cie, 19 10. 4to, pp. ix+ 727. Col. etc. ill.

The Continental definition oi folklore as covering folk arts and crafts and, in fact, anything produced by or related to the folk, seems to have stimulated the formation of collections and museums of folk objects. While the museum of peasant art at Haslemere is probably, — until Mr. Lovett's comprehensive collec- tion is adopted by some fortunate locality, — the only separate public gathering of the kind on this side of the Channel, in 1907 the catalogue of the Antwerp Musee de folklore of the Conservatoire de la Tradition Populaire Flamande already included 2816 items, ranging from house tiles, salt-boxes, stable lanterns, costumes, and toys, to lovers' hearts cut in trees, folklore electoral., chapbooks, and broadsides. Collections of less importance exist at Skansen in Sweden, Bucharest, and elsewhere. The present handsome and fascinating volume is appropriately dedicated to M. Elskamp, the donor of the Antwerp Museum, and describes, with the help of hundreds of illustrations, the picture broadsides, each con- taining one or a number of coloured or plain woodcuts or prints with accompanying legends, which from the adoption of wood engraving for this purpose in the fifteenth century up to recent years were produced in millions for the peasantry and the children of Flanders and other European countries. Early prints of this kind were generally religious, and evidence of this remains in the